, the fbi says a letter sent to presidentbarackobamahastested positive for the deadly poison ricin. >> the letter was intercepted tuesday at a mail screening facility. american media say that the letter sent to obama and another letter sent to roger wicker were both postmarked memphis, tennessee. additional tests are due in the next 48 hours to confirm the presence of the toxin. >> our washington correspondent is following this for us. any idea as to who might be behind this? >> oh -- we do not have a suspect yet, but there was a signature on the letters. the letters included the phrase "to see a wrong and not to expose it is to become to -- a silence -- is to become a silent partner to it." president obama said, "i am president obama and i approve this message." this is someone who wants to get attention. it is important to note that both are getting letters right now, republicans and democrats. that says to me this is someone who really hates government. the u.s. -- in the u.s., antigovernment extremists have a fascination with ricin in the past. you can easily buy manuals on how

in the last fewhours.obamaandsenator roger wicker was sent letters containing what is thought to be ricin, a ighly toxic substance. he once ruled pakistan, but now pervez musharraf is a wanted man. he had been living in self-imposed exile in dubai and lone don't past few years and only returned to take part in elections. it seems that was a miscalculation. stephanie reports. >> push after ar had come to court -- musharraf had come to court, hoping his bail would be extended once more. instead he was forced to flee. the judge refused to listen. he's accused of treason relating to his decision to suspend the constitution and declare a state of emergency when he still ran the country in 2007. the week has gone from bad to worse for musharraf, who returned to pakistan last month in the hope of making a political comeback. on tuesday, a court in peshawar disqualified from running in the parliamentary elections in may. now he finds himself effectively on the run. lawyers at the islamabad high court want the former president as he went through court, crying out, "look who's running away." >> i e

on the latest on the boston marathon,presidentobamaspokeat an interfaith church service as investigators search for the press or people responsible for the attack. rich edson has the latest. rich: president obama just arrived at massachusetts general hospital where he will meet with hospital staff, some of the victims of this. he was meeting with those of the boston athletic association, volunteers, victims' families, first responses, link the statement of the president of the added stake in boston speaking at the interfaith service attended by number of dignitaries including former presidential challenger mitt romney who was in attendance with his son. when you listen to what the president spoke for about noon he started speaking and set a stern message to the bombers. >> bostonians carried victims and their arms, little water and blankets, lined up to give blood. opened their homes to total strangers, give them lives back to reunite with their families. that is love. that is the message we send to those who carried this out to anyone who would do harm to our people. yes, we will find y

obamaandadding to the song "yes, we can: voices of a grassroots movement," she has well sung the national anthem at the national championship football game and as well she has given a lot of contributions to american music. she is a supporter of music education for our children, the mother of a daughter and, yes, a prominent american. but i think if we could say the most about yolanda adams is that she never stops evangelizing and seeking to help those who are hopeless and in despair. she brings joy to those who seek it and believes that everyone is a child of god. i'm grateful to know yolanda adams and to claim her as a constituent of the great city of houston and the great state of texas. but most of all, she's an american who is a believer and understands the value of america's freedom to be able to worship. she continues to soldier on to save souls and we're delighted to have been able to have her bless us this morning. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain five further requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. the

topresidentobama, vicepresident biden for their leadership and standing strong and continuing to fight for a safer america. i would like to say they're see forhank you to the senators legislation that would keep guns out of hand and save lives. they stood by us right from the beginning. they were with us. we will not be defeated. we are not defeated. we will not be defeated. we are here now. we will always be here. we have no other choice. we are not going away. every day more people are killed in this country because of gun violence. our determination grows stronger. we leave washington hoping that others, both here and across the country, will join us in making the sandy hook promise. i pledge that we have great hope that more senators will take literally. i would like to end i repeating the sandy hook thomas begins, our hearts are broken. our spirits is not. thank you. it is now my great pleasure to introduce the president of the united states of america, barack obama. >> good job. , in few months ago response to too many tragedies, including the shootings of a u.s. congressman, gab

much. we appreciate it. as you have been watching on this network ofpresidentobamadidhonor the victims of monday's explosions in boston at an interfaith church service. this just a short time ago as investigators continue their man of the person or persons irresponsible for the marathon bombings. we have jeff flock on the story. yesterday with one mad this is the story in the next as another. but we have now? >> reporter: that's right. two fbi briefings or cancel them all we have now is another fbi briefing scheduled for 5:00. the gst never happened. if the fbi breezes of 5:00 this afternoon, president obama is right now on his way back from boston where he spoke at the service. he also visited that umass general hospital to talk to victims and their families, first responders, doctors, nurses, speaking with volunteers. the president on his way back to washington right now. here in d.c. attorney-general eric holder promised to work to prevent something like this happening again. >> the department also will continue to strengthen and refine our broader national security effo

service which was entitled healing our city. it ran about an hour and 15 minutes. andpresidentobamawhospoke for about 10 minutes or so in a speech that was part sermon and also intended to inspire the city. >> i'm here today on behalf of the american people with a simple message. every one of us has been touched by this attack on your beloved city. every one of us stands with you. after all it's our beloved city, too. boston may be your hometown, but we claim it, too. >> at this hour the president is still in boston meeting with volunteers and all the while that this was going on, the investigation was continuing, the video evidence that authorities have been looking at includes potentially two individuals that may either be witnesses or may have had a role in the attacks on monday. there is video of somebody places a bag at the site that may or may not be the bag that contained the bomb. nbc news also reporting that authorities are canvassing hobby stores because some fragments included wiring and batteries. often the type used in toys. so they want to see whether these things were p

to question in relation to the boston marathon bombings. all this aspresidentobamawentto that city today to help begin the healing. scott cohn has the latest from that city. scott? >> michelle, we are, indeed, about two hours away from this long-awaited news conference. we've had an official news blackout for two days now. so we should find out what the authorities have been working on the last couple of days. some actual official information about that. potentially, a picture or pictures of the people they want to talk to and what they've learned from all of those video images. and we know that there were cell phone cameras that people have turned in and all the surveillance cameras, like the one in the lord and taylor store, just across the street from the second blast. and also, at least two others that were operated by the boston athletic association at the finish line, and those could be very high-quality images, because those were high-definition cameras. so if they caught something, that could be crucial. also, there are the fragments that they've picked up of the explosive device

taken. i look at you and say i'm angry about something. i'm angryaboutobama. i'mangry about bush. person says, says, i'm angry, too. no one else is doing something. all of a sudden you have a cycle that leads to an act of violence that neither individual would take otherwise. >> i'm going to come back to that cycle of violence. mr. schwecker, want to go to you as a former assistant fbi director. according to the news reports, these two guys parted ways, okay. so suspect number two with the white hat backwards, he put the bag down and that was right near the explosion so we've kind of fingered him as the guy for the explosion. what about the first bomb explosion? they parted ways. does that mean that they were accountable for the first explosion, or do you think there are other people accountable for the first explosion? >> well, first, larry, i think what's happened here is you've got a composite of videos from all up and down that -- throughout that area. private videos, digital image videos, so they have pieced together at least that these two were together at some point, and -

with this individual who they have on video. kelly. >> scott, we'll leave it there for now. we knowpresidentobamaisvisiting the area. >>> in the meantime, commodity prices are selling off. the sell-off i should say continues. it's mostly copper today, though. and we are certainly off the lows. in fact, something of a rebound shaping up now with gold up better than 1%. crude participating, as well. brent and nymex there both remaining below if you want to call them key psychological levels of $109 a barrel respectively. we've seen miners down significantly in some cases this morning. coming off the lows of the session. how do you play the commodities space? what other opportunities might the u.s. offer in particular here? darren joins me from yorkville capital. welcome. you're here to talk infrastructure, but the conference is about infrastructure, but what you're talking about, really, are some of the opportunities that the u.s. now offers, given a lot of the big changes we've recently seen when it comes to shale gas. >> absolutely. i will start out with two questions for you today. what's the

. of course,presidentobamaspentnearly four hours there today, as partf interface service that they had, michelle. >> scott cohn is in boston. he has the latest from there, scott. >> michelle, we are going to finally get an official briefing from law enforcement, as bill said, that will come roughly around the top of the hour. and the plan is that it will be all law enforcement. the previous briefings have included the governor and the mayor. this is now sort of getting down to business, and it is widely anticipated that we will probably see some pictures of people of interest, that they captured on video at the time of the explosions on monday afternoon. that's part of the whole process of healing this city, healing our city was the theme of the remembrances today in boston, culminating in an hour and 15-minute long memorial service, interfaith service, at the cathedral of the holy cross. president obama speaking and delivering a message of renewal. >> this time next year, on the third monday in april, the world will return to this great american city, to run harder than ever and to ch

administration. he could pull it off.ifobamanearlytried, it could produce a million jobs in the oil and gas industry. that's not even including the ancillary small businesses or the factory jobs that we moved here from other countries to benefit from our cheaper energy costs. but here's the rub. in order to achieve energy independence within president obama's time in office, the president would have to embrace natural gas as a surface fuel, the way they do in other countries with bountiful gas reserves. he has the ability to order government automobiles, trucks to convert to natural gas. that would then foster a huge job-creating infrastructure and make the importation of oil from diesel fuel oneua all our itsntan irrelevance. ver, ithe president did that h environmental base would be furious. so instead, he says, he favors all sorts of energy. hey, that's the same thing as doing nothing. he needs to say nat g our fuel. we're going to use it to clean up our skies and also become energy independent. sound impossible? listen. i'm not talking about giving this industry one red cent. unlike the

to the number originally planned during the bush administration withpresidentobama. ihave a question for you with the russian government consulted or informed that the united states was considering this decision before the decision was made and if so, when it that occur? >> well, the answer is not to my knowledge. it was not russian government was not consulted in any way. it was not decision that policy was not decided based on any consideration of the russian government. incidentally i would add that those gbi also not only really alaska but some are -- california. >> okay. to your knowledge they were not consulted. the department were to dpd that additional missile defense systems were needed, to be deployed domestically or abroad. would the russian government be informed before the decision was made? >> first, i can't answer for the president. will they include any of our nato allies as part of our discussion? >> again, senator, i don't know about those talks that would be in the per view of the secretary of state and the white house. i have not been consulted on on the possibility what

to speak is governor deval patrick as well aspresidentobamawhowill speak at the end of the service and will bring those remarks to you live. as you know in any sort of in terms of healing it, the key is willing a will to heal. that is very much apparent here in boston. now onto the investigation, as carl said two individuals being sought by authorities on camera, videos can be waptured of these individuals around the time of the bombing, but authorities are also saying that the pictures of those individuals have not been released. so pictures are not the men that authorities are looking for. but there were multiple images that captured the explosion and the time leading up to it. that's what authorities are looking at frame by frame by frame. not just cell phone video, but surveillance video. we talked about the lord & taylor camera directly across the street from the second bombing. there were two other cameras at least that were supplied by a company called access communications. those cameras were high definition cameras. so these could be very high quality images, and we expect